Doctor Alanna Kamp

Academic Program Advisor, Geography and Planning,
Geography, Tourism & Planning

Senior Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies,
Geography, Tourism & Planning

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Biography

Dr Alanna Kamp (BA BSc (UNSW); PhD (WSU)) is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies and Academic Program Advisor (Geography & Planning) in the School of Social Sciences. She is also Research Fellow in the Young and Resilient Research Centre (WSU), and academic member of the Challenging Racism Project (WSU) and Diversity and Human Rights Research Centre (WSU).

Dr Kamp’s research contributions lie in the areas of Australian multiculturalism and cultural diversity, experiences of migration and migrant settlement, racism and anti-racism, national identity, citizenship and intersectional experiences of belonging/exclusion. Her work utilises national-level quantitative methods as well as smaller-scale qualitative techniques that are influenced by multi-disciplinary research (post-colonialism, feminism, history, diaspora etc). She has published pioneering (and award winning) work on Chinese Australian women’s experiences of national and cultural identity, participation and contribution, racism and belonging. She has also published in the areas of Indigenous Studies, Asian Australian Studies, and Islamophobia.

She is currently leading the project Asian Australians' Experiences of Racism during the COVID19 Pandemic, funded by the Centre of Resilient and Inclusive Socities, and the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria.

Alanna is also leading a project on 'Mixed Race' Young Austalians' experiences of racism, identity and belonging in multicultural Australia, funded by Western Sydney University (ECR Fellowship)

Her book Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia is due to be published by Routledge (London) in 2021.

She has taught in the areas of Human Geography, Development Studies and Applied Social Research. She is currently the Unit Coordinator of 102170 People, Place and Social Difference (Level 1, Core)

This information has been contributed by Doctor Kamp.

Qualifications

PHD University of Western Sydney
BSc(HumGeo) University of New South Wales
BA University of New South Wales

Professional Memberships

Geographical Society of NSW (2011 - 2017)
Institute of Australian Geographers (2017 - 2017)

Awards

University Medal in Geography (UNSW) 2008-04-17
The Jack Mabbutt Medal (UNSW) 2008-04-17
Jim Rose Geography Award (Geographical Society of NSW) 2007-11-16
Faculty Vacation Research Scholarship (UNSW) 2006-04-10
The United Association of Women Prize 2005-04-26
Australian Postgraduate Award 2009-01-01
David G Stead Award (Australian Geographer/ GSNSW) 2018-12-03
Geographical Society of NSW Post-Doctoral Scholar Award 2018-12-03
Geographical Research Prize (Institute of Australian Geographers) 2010-12-01

Interests

Australian History
Historical Geography
Human Geography
Immigration and Racism
Postcolonial Feminist Geography

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Geography, Tourism & Planning
Geography, Tourism & Planning

Committees

Dragon Tails Inc
Geographical Names Board NSW

Contact

Email:	A.Kamp@westernsydney.edu.au
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Location:	EI.G.12 Parramatta

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

101276 Working with Communities, 2014
101331 Issues in World Development: Rich World, Poor World, 2010
101331 Issues in World Development: Rich World, Poor World, 2011
101552 Applied Social Research, 2014
101552 Applied Social Research, 2015
101552 Applied Social Research, 2016
101552 Applied Social Research, 2017
101556 The Geographies of Social Difference, 2010
101556 The Geographies of Social Difference, 2014
101590 Cultural and Social Geographies, 2018
101590 Cultural and Social Geographies, 2019
102170 People, Place and Social Difference, 2020
102170 People, Place and Social Difference, 2021

Publications

Books

Kamp, A. (2022), 'Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia', : Routledge 9780367674298.

Chapters in Books

Babacan, A., Jacobs, R., Kamp, A., Paradies, Y., Piyarathne, A., Wang, C., Zwi, K., Woodland, L. and Hutton, V. (2021), 'Racism', Multicultural Responsiveness in Counselling and Psychology: Working with Australian Population, Palgrave Macmillan 9783030554262.
Kamp, A. (2021), 'Chinese Australian women's experiences of migration and mobility in white Australia', Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia, Hong Kong University Press 9789888528615.
Dunn, K. and Kamp, A. (2015), 'The virtues and challenges of comparative analyses of immigration, migrant settlement and transnationalism', Social Transformation and Migration: National and Local Experiences in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico and Australia, Palgrave 9781137474940.
Dunn, K. and Kamp, A. (2012), 'A failed political attempt to use global Islamophobia in Western Sydney : the 'Lindsay leaflet scandal'', Global Islamophobia : Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
Dunn, K. and Kamp, A. (2009), 'The hopeful and exclusionary politics of Islam in Australia: looking for alternative geographies of 'Western Islam'', Muslim Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West, Zed Books 9781848133006.

Journal Articles

Kamp, A., Dunn, K., Sharples, R., Denson, N. and Diallo, T. (2023), 'Understanding trust in contemporary Australia using latent class analysis', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, vol 15, no 2 , pp 84 - 104.
Kamp, A., Sharples, R., Vergani, M. and Denson, N. (2023), '[In Press] Asian Australians' experiences and reporting of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Intercultural Studies, .
Kamp, A., Denson, N., Sharples, R. and Atie, R. (2022), 'Asian Australians' experiences of online racism during the COVID-19 pandemic', Social Sciences, vol 11, no 5 .
Kamp, A. (2021), 'Chinese Australian daughters' experiences of educational opportunity in 1930s-60s Australia', Australian Historical Studies, vol 52, no 4 , pp 549 - 566.
Kamp, A. (2018), 'Chinese Australian women's 'homemaking' and contributions to the family economy in White Australia', Australian Geographer, vol 49, no 1 , pp 149 - 165.
Gorman-Murray, A., Kamp, A. and McKinnon, S. (2018), 'Guest editorial : historical geographies down under', Australian Geographer, vol 49, no 1 , pp 1 - 3.
Dunn, K., Blair, K., Bliuc, A. and Kamp, A. (2018), 'Land and housing as crucibles of racist nationalism : Asian Australians' experiences', Geographical Research, vol 56, no 4 , pp 465 - 478.
Kamp, A., Dunn, K., Paradies, Y. and Blair, K. (2018), 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's attitudes towards Australian multiculturalism, cultural diversity, 'race' and racism, 2015-16', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol 2018, no 2 , pp 50 - 70.
Kamp, A., Alam, O., Blair, K. and Dunn, K. (2017), 'Australians' views on cultural diversity, nation and migration, 2015-16', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, vol 9, no 3 , pp 61 - 84.
Kamp, A. (2013), 'Chinese Australian women in White Australia : utilising available sources to overcome the challenge of "invisibility"', Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, vol 6 , pp 75 - 101.
Kamp, A. (2010), 'Formative geographies of belonging in white Australia : constructing the national self and other in parliamentary debate, 1901', Geographical Research, vol 48, no 4 , pp 411 - 426.
Dunn, K., Kamp, A., Shaw, W., Forrest, J. and Paradies, Y. (2010), 'Indigenous Australians' attitudes towards multiculturalism, cultural diversity, ?race' and racism', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol 13, no 4 , pp 19 - 31.

Other Publications

2022, 'Australians' Well-Being and Resilience During COVID-19', Report
2021, 'Asian Australians' Experiences of Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic', Report
2017, 'Challenging Racism Project: 2015-16 National Survey', Report

Dr. Alanna Kamp's areas of research include the historical geographies of Chinese Australian experience, attitudes to immigration, and experiences of other non-white settlement throughout Australia's history and contemporary times. Her doctoral research, titled ‘Invisible Australians’: Chinese-Australian Women’s experiences of belonging and exclusion in the White Australia Period, 1901-1973, moved beyond patriarchal accounts of Chinese Australian settlement and experience in the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973) by providing an analysis of the lived experiences of Chinese Australian women in this historical period.

As an historical and cultural geographer, and part of the Urban Research Program/Challenging Racism Project, Alanna is interested in feminist and postcolonial understandings of the migrant experience and attitudes to immigration in Australia. She is particularly interested in the ways in which historical geographies of migrant experience have contemporary relevance and shape current community experiences and identities.

Her recent publications include:

Kamp, A. 2021. International migration and mobility experiences of Chinese Australian women in White Australia, 1901-1973, in K. Bagnall and J. Martínez (eds.), Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia, HKU Press, Hong Kong, 105-128.

Kamp (2021) Chinese Australian Daughters’ Experiences of Educational Opportunity in 1930s–60s Australia, Australian Historical Studies.

Kamp, A. (2021). White Mongrel, in S.Sisko and V.Hutton (eds.), Cultural competence in counselling and psychology, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.70-73

Kamp, A. (2018) 'Chinese Australian women’s ‘homemaking’ and contributions to the family economy in White Australia', Australian Geographer 49 (1), 149-165

Gorman-Murray, A., Kamp, A., McKinnon, S. (2018) 'Guest editorial: Historical geographies down under' , Australian Geographer 49 (1), 1-3

A Kamp, O Alam, K Blair, K Dunn (2017)' Australians’ views on cultural diversity, nation and migration, 2015-16', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9 (3), 61-84

K Blair, KM Dunn, A Kamp, O Alam (2017) Challenginf Racism Project 2015-2016 National Survey Report, Western Sydney University.